On Monday, former Hollywood Reporter editor Marc Bernardin took it upon himself to explain the ongoing failure of the new Star Wars lineup to set the world aflame. His answer: the fans are the problem.

No one wants social justice talking points (one version anyway) forced fed by increasingly crappy Star Wars films. “Shockingly,” feminizing every film costs you a big chunk of the audience. Weird, right? The people at Disney seem mystified as to why we’re not all grateful to have their oh so enlightened societal views force fed.

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The prospect of Christopher Nolan directing a James Bond film is one that makes both film fans and studio executives salivate. It’s not something that’s happening just yet—but in a new interview, Nolan admitted he’s been tempted to do it and has a

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Wave goodbye to 'Jaws' and its sequels (yes, 'Jaws: The Revenge' included).

The biggest drawback to Netflix is that nothing seems to last very long. Actually, the biggest problem is that you still need to purchase their disc plan if you want any serious hope of using it to see any recent major film.

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Richard Hatch, who originated the role of Battlestar Galactica‘s Apollo, died on Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 71. Hatch’s early career included the role of Phillip Brent on the daytime soap opera All My Children, while his fir

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A year and a half after wrapping his iconic TV series Mad Men, the show's creator, Matthew Weiner, has finally picked his next TV project. The creator is leaving AMC for streaming, making a $70 million deal with Amazon and The Weinstein Co. for his new, m

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The new “Ghostbusters” movie has been followed by controversy every step of the way. Some criticized it for having a new, all-female cast, some thought it was perpetuating negative stereotypes and others just hated the trailer.

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Harrison Ford will dust off his fedora for a fifth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, due in 2019, and the jokey movie titles were flying on Twitter on Tuesday faster than you could crack a bullwhip.

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You’re a Lebowski. I’m a Lebowski. These days, pretty much everybody loves The Big Lebowski. But it wasn’t always the case. Since its release and modest reception in 1998, the Coen Brothers' oddball slackerhero tale has enjoyed modern movie history’s most unusual (yet fairly inevitable) ascent to classic status. In association with Lebowski Fest on March 13—a yearly celebration of all things Dude—here are 21 facts that might have eluded even the most accomplished Lebowski achievers.

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To have made it as an announcer during radio's golden age, you had to have a smooth, mellifluous voice, impeccable diction, and at least a decent grasp of world events. But even the best had their off days. In this YouTube compilation, newscasters from the Australia’s ABC News bungle through the daily news, slurring words, misreading sentences, and repeatedly mispronouncing the names of important people and places (is it “Vietnam” or “Viet-na-man”?).

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Thanksgiving weekend in the United States is a four-day festival of overindulgence: Giant meals, giant balloons representing pop-culture favorites, giant savings at the big box store on Friday morning.

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In Sylvester Stallone 's mind, he had hung up the boxing gloves. No more jogging up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps. No more "Yo, Adrian!" No more one-armed push-ups to the strains of "Gonna Fly Now." No more Rocky.

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Smith originally announced back in March that he has been gearing up for another return to the cinematic “View Askewniverse” he launched in 1994 with Clerks. A sequel to his second feature film, Mallrats 2 is slated to feature the return of Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Ethan Suplee, Shannen Doherty, Michael Rooker, Renee Humphrey, Joey Lauren Adams, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Scott Mosier, Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan, Brian O’Halloran, Claire Forlani and, as himself, Stan “The Man” Lee. Of course, Smith will also reprise his role as Silent Bob opposite Jason Mewes’ Jay.

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This week, Guy Ritchie takes a stab at recreating the magic of the sixties TV show The Man from UNCLE. The original show gives him a lot to work with, and there are only a few things that the movies needs to nail to get it right.

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Home entertainment systems and online streaming are convenient ways to watch movies, but there are still a few brick-and-mortar movie theaters that aim to give their audiences a unique filmgoing experience.

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For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the Terminator series is a franchise. James Cameron’s first movie — even though it includes a much more illustrious backstory than it ever needed — is basically “robot chases humans.” It’s so simple that it’s great

Arnold Schwarzenegger gave fans their money's worth at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Hollywood. The former governor of California dressed up as his Terminator character and pretended to be a wax statue at the museum — then jumping out and scaring

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The first three "Jurassic Park" films grossed a combined total of nearly $2 billion worldwide, so it's a bit surprising "Jurassic World," the latest installment in the franchise, took a decade to get made.

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Something that happened when some sitcoms started following a single-camera format was seeing an entire house, apartment, or room. But multi-camera shows, shot on sets in front of studio audiences, always left out one very crucial element… the fourth wall. Vox uncovered some set photos from Seinfeld, which premiered 25 years ago Sunday (May 31, 1990), that revealed...

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Movies—no matter how groundbreaking or vision changing or future defining—are trapped under the limitations of the technology of their time. Which often means that a movie’s imagination of the future is handcuffed with those same limitations. Their

I remember a lot of these. I choose to believe that the future does look like this!

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As networks try to keep up with the constantly evolving ways viewers watch content, NBC is dipping a toe in the binge-viewing pond by releasing all thirteen episodes of "Aquarius" starring David Duchovny on NBC.com and the NBC app after the sho

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If you're lucky enough to have nothing better to do than watch TV for the next several days straight, you could watch AMC's Mad Men marathon, which starts Wednesday night at 6 p.m. ET. Every episode will run — all seven seasons in their entirety — leading up to the series finale on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.

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The 90th episode of “Mad Men” dramatized two very different visions of top-of-the-ladder success. For Joan, Don, Peggy and Roger, the first days at McCann confirm everything they’d feared about selling out to a bigger company...

The actor: Scott Glenn did a stint in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a reporter before it ever occurred to him to try his hand at the dramatic arts, but once he caught the acting bug, he knew it was destined to be a permanent condition. Glenn’s first on-camera work was on the small screen, where he continues to pop up on occasion.

Scott Glenn is one of the best actors out there, it's nice to see him getting some press.

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Last week, Don Draper struggled to summarize Sterling Cooper & Partners' prospects for the future. As it turns out, he was right to be blocked: It doesn't have one. A notice that their lease has been terminated clues Roger Sterling in to McCann's mastery plan: They've going to swallow SC&P lock, stock and Pete Campbell.

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Ben Affleck really didn’t want the public to know his ancestors owned slaves. The actor and director asked PBS to conveniently ignore that part of his family tree for the program Finding Your Roots, according to the hacked Sony emails that were rece

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After Season 4 of “Mad Men” ended in 2010, Weiner’s contract was up for renewal. AMC and Lionsgate (which co-produced the show) responded by offering Weiner a lot less money and a list of demands – trim the cast, add more time for commercials and, most intriguing, develop a spinoff.

I understand why there will be no sequel. I still wanted one. There will be another show like Mad Men and a sequel would have been the closest thing.

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Years before Saturday Night Live introduced the wonderful Celebrity Jeopardy sketch, SCTV did a similar skit called Half Wits. It's amazing. The only substantial change is that the SNL contestants are celebrity dopes, while these people are just dopes.

I had no idea that this was the inspiration for Celebrity Jeopardy. It's very cool!

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A new look at Season 7.5 makes us believe that our favorite ad man will survive his final episode.

Like a lot of people, I am not looking forward to this show coming to an end. It's has been a big part of my life and the culture for quite a while now. I am sad to see it go. I still think that Don will probably get it in the end though...

"Saturday Night Live" will celebrate its 40th Anniversary with a special that will air this Sunday, February 15 at 8 PM on NBC. In addition to an insane cast of SNL veterans, actors, and comedians, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Arcade Fire, Fiona Apple, Jack White, Taylor Swift, and many others will make appearances in the three hour program, E! reports.

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In Guy Ritchie’s new, ’60s-set spy film The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Henry Cavill’s CIA agent Napoleon Solo partners with Armie Hammer’s KGB spook Illya Kuryakin to fight evil. Why exactly do an American and a Russian wind up working together at th

I really want this to be good. I used to love this show as a kid (in reruns, of course).

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George Lucas told Cinema Blend in an interview posted yesterday that when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, along with the company came some of his ideas for a new Star Wars trilogy. But it sounds like none of them will be part of the new Star Wars universe of movies...

Er, good. Maybe this movie will make up for the travesty of the last three.

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Get excited! Director Ridley Scott recently told MTV that Harrison Ford absolutely loves the script for the upcoming Blade Runner sequel. So much so that Ford apparently called it the best thing he's ever read. Let's hope he's even half right.

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WHAT: What did James Franco do this time? We kid, we kid. On November 24, while Americans were brining turkeys, hackers breached the Sony Pictures network exposing the names, birth dates, and social security numbers of nearly 4,000 employees and leaking several movies (including the musical Annie and WWII drama Fury) to file-sharing sites. - See more...

News that a trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens might debut over Thanksgiving weekend was met with some skepticism here at The A.V. Club, where we see a lot of Star Wars rumors come and go. This particular bit of Internet scuttlebutt turned out to be true, however, at least for residents of nine cities across the U.S. with theaters owned by the Regal Entertainment Group.

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Looks like HBO was really happy with J. J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan's Westworld pilot, an adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1973 novel of the same name. News of the pilot first came out over a year ago; today, accompanied by some bizarre tweets.

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The universe was shaken when we watched hidden-camera footage of a woman walking around NYC and getting harassed. Then we saw what happens when a white man suffers the same fate. Now, in the latest parody of the Hollaback!

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Sony Pictures TV recently green-lighted a pilot for a revamped version of the supernatural classic sitcom Bewitched. The new show will feature Samantha’s granddaughter, who is also a witch but who finds her magic useless when it comes to finding true love. For those who truly loved the original series, here are 14 fun facts about the show and the actors that might surprise you.

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Jerry Seinfeld sat down with Brian Williams on NBC's "Nightly News" on Thursday and said he believes he has autism. "I think, on a very drawn-out scale, I think I'm on the spectrum," Seinfeld said. When asked to explain, t...

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Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer?

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Hold onto your Stormtrooper helmets, folks. A major pile of Star Wars: Episode VII concept art seems to have dropped, and they match many of the movie rumors we've been hearing about. Major spoilers ahead, so check them out at your own risk!

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Saturday morning American broadcast TV was once animation's home field. Filling a cereal bowl with artificially colored sugar pebbles and staring at the tube was every kid's weekend plan. Not any more: For the first time in 50-plus years, you won't find a

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This morning, we woke up to a post-Saturday-Morning-Cartoons America. That got plenty of us talking about our former TV watching routines, and that made me wonder: In an era of on-demand, mobile, streaming content, do you still watch TV shows when they ai

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Mark Hamill appeared yesterday at the Golden Heart Gala in Los Angeles sporting a full beard and long hair. Since they are filming now, I think it's safe to say that this is how he looks on the new Star Wars Episode VII by J.J. Abrams. So I photoshopped h

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The phrase, "What's the deal with..." is so synonymous with a specific brand of '90s observational comedy, I bet you just read those words in Jerry Seinfeld's voice. It's funny because he always said it! Or did he?

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Twenty years ago, 'Pulp Fiction' premiered in the U.S. To celebrate, here are 20 things you might not have known about the movie that taught Americans that a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is called a Royale with Cheese in Europe.

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(Images: Lucasfilm, Alan Light)In the original Star Wars trilogy, the British actor David Prowse played the body of Darth Vader and the American actor James Earl Jones provided the voice. Jones is known for his rich, melodious voice. No one else could hav

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The much-loved TV version of The Tick was axed by Fox in its first season, after just nine episodes. Now, it looks like the Big Blue Bug of Justice is back! According to People, the show is being revived by Amazon – and Patrick Warburton will star! And

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Kim Kardashian and her younger sisters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, appeared genuinely uninterested in a moment of silence held in honor of murdered teen Michael Brown and the civil unrest occurring in Ferguson, Mo.

Why are these 3 idiots famous? Why do people care what these 3 idiots do? And, why the HELL was there a moment of silence for a guy that may have assaulted a cop?

Before and after everything else, "Get On Up" is about the transformative power of performance. Of James Brown's, of course, but also Chadwick Boseman's, the star of the film who fills Brown's shoes with a dynamism that transcends imitation.

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James Garner is such a part of so many memories that it's hard to parcel out one from the other. The kids who grew up watching him turn the concept TV Western on its head in Maverick ended up loving him as Jim Rockford, who turned the concept of the .

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With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes coming out tomorrow, it's time to assess where we are in the complicated, time travel dystopia of the franchise that started over a half century ago. We've got a timeline and an analysis of where the current ser

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Fans of the Seinfeld2000 Twitter account and Seinfeld in general will soon have a whole set of Emoji to call their very own. Created by Seinfeld2000 mastermind Jason Richards and designer Kevin McCauley, the 42 cartoonish drawings of Jerry, Elaine, Newman